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What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

» Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author ['Brave New World']

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

» Anonymous (-)

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

» D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

» Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

» Leonard Cohen (1934-?) Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter

The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

» Anonymous (-)

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

» Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) French aviator and writer['Le Petit Prince']

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

» Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) French Writer

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softnes

» George Eliot (1819-1880) British novelist ['Middlemarch']

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

» Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian painter, sculptor and architect

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

» Anonymous (-)

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

» Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher['Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung']

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

» Epictetus (55-125) Greek stoic philosopher

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

» George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

» John Updike (1932-2009) American writer

The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

» Seneca (5-65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, known as Seneca the Younger, son of Seneca the Elder and tutor of Nero

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